La Boca

The Home of Tango

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February 27th 2010
TANGO had just been inscribed by Unesco as an item on it’s list of Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.. The city council of Montevideo celebrated the inscription with free concerts at the front of the Intendencia Municipal de Montevideo (City Hall) on three successive evenings last October. I have no photographs, but picture a stage erected from scaffolding a ... read more

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Following independence from Spain in 1816, Argentina experienced periods of internal political conflict between conservatives and liberals and between civilian and military factions. After World War II, a long period of Peronist authoritarian rule an... ... read more